In Florida, legislators are wondering whether or not they should raise tuition costs for students studying the humanities, or really anything other than STEM fields. Likewise, James Dyson (yes, the vacuum guy) bemoans Britain’s abundance of “students choosing to read humanities at university.” As a rejoinder, one New Statesman blogger notes that the study of humanities does not inhibit technological innovation, and that as a bonus, “we gain from having people who reshape our cultural landscape and put things in new contexts.”

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That is, flatly, not what Jobs said. He said that of the 5 major publishers who signed up, the iBookstore now accounts for 22% of sales. Jobs said nothing about the book industry as a whole. And that is a very significant number, if those publishers are seeing 22% of sales coming from the iBookstore already.

Do you write like Stephen King? Or how about Chuck Palahniuk? That’s what the I Write Like website told me when I entered my work into their little magical computer program–of course, I had to do it more than once!